How to Make Money Trading Futures, Forex, Options or Stocks

Make Profitable Trades Using Precision Trade Timing and Fibonacci Ratios

You can Make Money Trading Stocks, Forex and Futures using Precision Trade Timing combined with and Fibonacci methods. It's a good time to start using Fibonacci Numbers in your trading and 2 often valid ratios to use are .618 & 1.618. You may be able to trade for a living by mastering fibonacci ratios. Whatever the underlying cause, be it natural law or whatever, fibonacci can help traders make money by finding turning-points.

What you do at market turning points is important. For example find 2 recent swing highs or swing lows. Count the number of price bars from a swing high or low to the other swing high or low. You can forecast a fib-based change-of-trend date as follows, assuming you are going to use the last swing-highs. For example, say the distance between the swings is 20-bars. Take this distance (20) and multiply it by both .618 and 1.618, Next, arrive at a fib-forecast turn-date using our calculation methods... (get more details by becoming a traders club member)

. . . How would you like to learn a relatively easy but powerful method to forecast the-markets at or near tops and bottoms and possibly trade for a living!
Try using Fibonacci ratios. The most popular ratios are .618 and
1.618. Several trading systems have fibonacci numbers and ratios included as part of their trader tools, and for good reason.

Whatever the underlying causes, be it
natural market law or a self-fulfilled
prophecy as some traders think, using fibonacci numbers
can help traders find market-turns. What you do with
market turning points is up to the trader.

Simply locate two con-current tops or
bottoms. Make sure they are no mere blips on the screen,
but clearly changes of trend. Count the number of
price bars from one top or swing bottom to the other top
or swing bottom. Okay, you have the distance in time from
two extremes, now lets forecast out into the
future.

Lets assume you are going to
use the last two tops. Say the distance between them
is 20 days. Take this distance (20), and multiply
it by both .618 and 1.618, adding the result to second
of the two extremes. Rounding for this article, .618
of 20 is around 12. Therefore, count 12-days from
the second top or bottom of the two extremes you're
using to arrive at your forecasted turning date.

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How valuable is this information? During a year long ago, I was getting beaten up pretty good by market
action. The Stochastic, moving averages, etc. were
not helping. Then I came upon Fibonacci ratios and
their applications, and from there went on a wonderful
long streak of wins in Pork Bellies by forecasting
exactly when the market would turn. All my debts were
quickly wiped out and soon I was in the black by several
thousands. This was the beginning of my trading career.

Today, I dont use Fibonacci time
days as they are too far apart, and further study
and experimentation has brought me to market geometry,
which although Fibonacci no doubt is in there somewhere,
it makes up only a small part of the whole equation.
That is how Fdates was born early 1997.

But the fact remains you can still use your hand calculator to
get some time days, and you can learn to properly
use the information for profit. Once you solve for
a time day, simply wait to see if you will have an
opportunity to use it. So pull out your calculator
and try a few charts using these ratios. Soon you
will find it easy to do. What I mean by this is that,
even if you have a time day, there are other factors
you should keep in mind. One of those is trading with
the trend, not against it, and where to enter price
wise.

Commodity Trading is Still the Best – J.
L. . .

Ill say it again. Commodities
are at the same time both the safest investment and the riskiest
trading vehicle in the world. Lets talk investment
once more Where else can you own a highly leveraged
and instantly liquid investment for nothing? One that
is completely safe because it can never go bankrupt
be "de listed" or become worthless. (You
can buy cheaply enough to handle a drawdown and maybe
buy some more, cant you?

After all, any drawdown is the sum of your Actual Investment.) You say
Ive forgotten Margin? Not so. Thats in
your T-Bill earning what your "sweep" account
earns for you stock traders. Except for one thing.
That money is no longer in that sweep account after
you buy your stock.

Being as I am, when I decided to do
commodities 17-years ago, on the way to the library
I stopped and bought the only commodity book my local
bookstore had. Pretty basic stuff, but the first lesson
was to buy an historically cheap (also relative to
my account size) corn contract putting up $540 and
adding money only if my commodity broker called.

The trader rule was to take profits when it equaled my total maximum outlay
(including margin). That would equal or exceed a 100%
return on my money (exceed if my broker did call)
even if it took two years of roll overs! The lesson
really was, as long as youre a buyer, true commodities
will always eventually return to a profitable price.

Now tell me 99% of us cant figure it out! Dont 99% of us only think were
in it for the money? Isnt the money the excuse
to challenge ourselves to "beat the odds"?
Maybe human ego, not a little greed and what the Catholic
Church called the sin of presumption when I was a
kid? (Not surprisingly the author of above book included
two mechanical systems that he proves made him money.
Then he says, "A strange thing happened. I lost
interest in the methods. I had proven them and that
was that). What a shock! We have met the enemy and
it's us!"

Since the above simplicity will clearly
double our money (it doesnt have to take 2-years),
why do you think we all dont just do it? Ill
be waiting here by my CTCN for your answers. My last
New Years resolution is, from now on, to do
(not trade) commodities.

Testing Trading Plans - RM . . .

It was a long year, a great learning
experience and a greater appreciation for the markets.
Trading is not as easy as some would have you believe.
Their goal is to sell you a product or collect fees.

I am thankful for being introduced
into the commodities trading business by one of them,
but even more thankful that Ive learned a craft
through hard work and perseverance without loosing
my shirt.

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What has helped is a combination of
a will to succeed and finding a trading plan that
works for me. Sticking to it will be the true test
of success. Sticking to it is the application of discipline.

Its easy to get caught up in
all the intrigue of striking it rich with all the
opportunities commodities trading offers. Read the
ads and articles in trading publications and magazines
and youll see it for yourself. But if you work
hard, plan the trade and trade the plan, and take
a break every now and then, that hard work will pay
off.

It started with trading options mostly
because the thought of a high-risk futures contract
was not something I was willing to risk being new
to the markets. I spent way to many hours and money
searching for something that did not exist . . . a
Holy-Grail type trading system or methodology that
would bring about countless profits and a wealth of
good fortune. But after many years of trading and
hard work, something was discovered . . . a trading
plan that works based on countless hours of testing
and refining.

The goal is to find a trading system
which offers trade signals based on sound technical
indicators, test its ability to be profitable in the
intended markets, and develop a plan that works according
to my trading habits and comfort level. For some,
this may be day trading. For others, short-term to
intermediate term trends on daily bar charts. And for a deep-pocket trader, and a great deal of patience, long-term
trading (6-12 months). As for myself, any trade longer
than 20 trading sessions is going to be very profitable
or its a very bad trade, which meant I broke
all my trading rules. A few years ago it may have been the
case, but not today!

A sound-trading plan must be back-tested and proven
if one expects profitable results. Its difficult
to assess slippage when testing a plan on paper (or
in my case, on the computer). Its even more difficult
to assess the necessary discipline that will keep you
focused. However, a disciplined trader coupled with
a proven trading plan will help instill the confidence
necessary to achieve success.

In my years of trading and testing to-date,
I have been able to witness market behavior and price
action on a wide variety of markets during varying degrees
of fundamental change. It is the fundamentals by which
markets are driven and technicals by which they are
traded. What I have learned is that testing my plan
requires discipline to take every generated signal in
all markets that can be afforded and to avoid the more
volatile and expensive markets.

The analysis covered a wide variety of
futures markets where a typical trade would last only
3 to 5-days with a few trades lasting 10+ trading days.
I guess it makes me a short-term position trader. Several
trades only lasted 2-days at best because price action
must dictate a valid signal whether profitable or not
over the next few days. Stop-loss was placed far enough
away so spikes wouldnt stop me out yet protect
against a major move against my position.

Trading is a discipline, not an art or
science. There is no room for emotions. I use the technicals
for good entry strategies, stop-loss placement, and
adding to positions. Candlesticks can aid in warning
of reversals. Divergence adds to that confidence that
a reversal is eminent. Discipline, must be learned thru
testing and real money trades.

A commodity trading system on its own should have
the ability to at least perform profitably with enough
cash backing up the expected and inherent account equity
drawdowns. This is the problem with most all-mechanical
commodities, stocks and forex trading systems.

Not enough available funds to continue
trading during periods of large drawdown. The development
of some simple rules have proven profitable by not waiting
to be stopped out of a trade either by an initial stop
loss point or a trailing stop.

Rule 1: Price action must dictate
a valid trade signal upon the day of entry or the trade is
exited on the open the following day.

This works very well at preserving capital.
The type of price action that must dictate the valid
signal is best described with candlestick patterns where
a white candle is bullish and a black candle bearish.
This article is not intended for the study of the various
candlestick patterns, but it is those patterns that
determine the validity of a signal. If the terms doji,
star, harami, engulfing candle, falling window, and
thrusting-candle mean anything, then you will be able
to understand Trading Rule Is application.

Candlestick charts can also be an asset to a traders
arsenal if used to warn of an impending change. They
are also useful as pattern entry signals if used properly
with other technical indicators. I use candlesticks
to do just that. An example would be if short a market
and upon the day of entry and a bullish engulfing candle,
rising window or thrusting candle occurred, then an
order to exit the market on the open the following day
would be placed. This would eliminate any second guessing
or further losses if the market continued in the same
direction against your position. The probabilities of
the market moving back in your favor are much lower,
although it does occur.

Other examples might be if a trading signal was
generated to enter a market short based on a large bearish
candlestick and the following days candlestick
was a white harami or doji, the same exit criteria would
be applied provided these patterns occurred near the
high of the bearish candlestick.

All other positions relative to the signaling
candlestick would not invoke the exit criteria. If you
are short a particular market and you get a bullish
engulfing candle with higher swing lows and higher swing
highs; it would invoke Rule 1 because the market could
not break the previous low. This could indicate the
correction or 'a' wave is not complete.

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Rule 2: The breaking of short-term
resistance/support on the close should be used to move
your stop-loss to the projected extreme high or low
pivot point, close to the market price.

Stop loss points are used strictly to
minimize large losses yet still leave room for small
corrections inherent in the markets. A bullish engulfing
candlestick 2-days in a row would be a good example
if short the market. Breaking the highs set 3-6 days
prior would be another example.

Not giving back all the gains made is
what makes this rule valuable. However, it is more subjective
than Rule 1 and should be applied cautiously. My system
calculates the extreme high or extreme low pivot point,
which is a projection of the next days extreme
higher or lower trading range. If stopped out, likely
a minor b wave will form on a correction,
which will allow you to get back into the trade. If
not, entry can be taken when market breaks support,
for example, if looking to short into the trend.

These trader rules are basic and should be easy
to follow. The application of these rules can improve
a trading systems performance. Results show that
these rules do preserve capital and therefore increase
profitability. They are mechanical enough that emotion
can be totally removed.

The trading plan - After one year
of real-time testing (not back-testing), it has been
proven that the addition of rules added to a mechanical
trading system can increase the profitability and limit
losses at times when markets are not trending.

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It is estimated market trends only occur
less than 20% of the time, so it makes sense to apply
some rules to mechanical trading systems that only work
well when markets trend.

This trading plan will be used in my
money trades and will be profitable. To the extent of
my testing is unclear. But the testing which brought
this trading plan to life will reinforce the discipline
necessary to succeed. I suppose many traders do not
consider this vital step in their evolution to become
successful traders and that will bring doubt and uncertainty
into trading the mechanical trading system.

"Get Out Now" - TB . . .

I agree wholeheartedly agreed that, "Deflation
is the greatest threat to the stability of this economy
we have ever seen." I have been saying this for
years. However, the economy is like a massive ocean
liner -- it takes a long time for it to slow down from
full steam ahead and then turn around to go in reverse direction.

The fundamental reasoning is most convincing.
In addition, I would like to add that the coming deflationary
spiral is also cyclical - in short, human nature being
what it is, we are due for a similar situation to the
1930s (though not necessarily exactly the same).
It is true that the lightning fast advances in technology
will eventually reinvigorate this (in general) great
capitalist system we operate, but capitalism is not
perfect; it is inexorably and detrimentally affected
by those two deadly psychological forces - greed and
fear.

Capitalism will not fail in the long
run as communism has, because it thrives on competition
- the exact opposite of communism, which destroys incentive
thereby breeding slothfulness. However, the world is
awash with a surplus of goods of every description and,
as was the case in the 30s, we are due for a massive
adjustment before we can power on again. Not even the
mighty Greenspan, clever as he undoubtedly is, can stop
this. Perversely, he may well have exacerbated the situation
through "sophisticated" manipulation of the
economy, thus inviting even worse deflation when it
eventually arrives, as it inevitably will.

One thing Greenspan, and for that matter
every other human who has ever existed, cannot do is
to alter human natureotherwise the market would
be perfectly ordered and we chart traders would not
be able to profit from the deviations from true
fundamentalsand wouldnt that be a shame!

Please allow me to repeat some words
of wisdom "Get out now. We have seen 11,000 (for
the Dow), but it fell and it fell hard and will not recover quickly.

Im convinced that the big money
is to be made on the downside - and down is about to
happen." I would add not to forget usually
the market leads the economy, so keep an eagle eye on
those charts rather than wait for fundamentals.

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